# Kaiyuan Zhu

> 之江实验室 Zhejiang Lab - Embedded Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaiyuan

• 3 years of experience on firmware and embedded system development.
• Experience on STM32F4, Atmel AVR and TM4C microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone boards.
• Strong programming kills on MISRA C, C++, Python, JAVA, Javascript, Matlab, Bash, makefile
• Driver development on audio codec, haptic, motor, LED, button, optical sensor, Lidar and IMU.
• Familiar with BLE, WIFI and Zigbee protocols.
• Familiar with UART, I2C, I2S, SAI, SPI buses with debugging experience (oscilloscope and logic analyzer).
• Familiar with bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux (kernel config, GNU toolchain, U-boot, buildroot, busybox).
• Hands on experience with electronics (transistors, RC filters, Op-amp, comparator, H-bridge).
• IAR, Keil, Eclipse, Qt creator, Pycharm, JIRA, SourceTree, Github, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CppUtest, Solidworks.

## Work Experience
### Embedded Software Engineer @ 之江实验室 Zhejiang Lab
Jan 2021 – Present | 杭州市， 浙江省， 中国

### Embedded Software Engineer @ 雅培
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Alameda, California

### Firmware Engineer @ Element Science, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Firmware development of a Class III wearable medical product.
 - Designed and implemented UI notification system with integration of buttons, LEDs, audio speaker and haptic motors.
 - Developed audio codec chip driver using I2C, SAI and DMA mode.
 - Designed and implemented software interface that streams device status and medical data packets to an iOS device over an on-board BLE chip.
 - Power consumption analysis and integration tests

### Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineer Intern @ Peel Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View
● Built a eletromechanical prototype that remotely control rotating a projector in two axes and adjusting the optical focus of the projector.
 - Developed firmware on Arduino and Raspberry Pi platform to control servomotors and stepper motor.
 - Prototyped an Android app with voice commands that controls the platform through WIFI.
 ● Mobile prototype that reads heart rate, blood oxygen level and controls TV channel.
 - Developed an Android API that interface with the Arduino chip through the phone's USB.
 - Developed Arduino firmware to control UV, IR LEDs, optical sensor and send IR pulses as remote TV commands.

### Graduate Research Rotational Student @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Stanford University
Research on nonlinearity and temperature dependent behaviors of various MEMS sensors.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, UIUC
● Nonlinear Piezoelectricity
--Develop a method to enhance the stimulated Brillouin scattering process in an optomechanical resonator utilizing materials' nonlinear piezoelectric properties.
 ● Mechanical Sensing with Optomechanofluidics 
Perform numerical simulation on an optomechanofluidic resonator (OMFR) sensor using COMSOL Multiphysics.
--Come up a novel method to determine fluid properties based on resonant frequency measurements.
--Perform a sensitivity analysis on particle locations of the OMFR sensor.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kaiyuan-zhu-0546313b

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Last updated: 2026-03-23